WEBVTT - Best Bits of the Week 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.760 It's the Best Bits of the week with Morgan Ikill, 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.040 just the bits. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.920 Welcome to the weekend, everybody. I hope you have gotten 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.040 to enjoy hopefully some nice weather. I know after the 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.480 cold snap, everybody was ready to get some sunshine, and 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.639 I think most places in the country have had some. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.040 If not, I hope the sunshine is coming to you soon. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:21.760 Thank you for joining me this weekend. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:23.280 I'm Morgan. This is the Best Bits. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.520 Part two we catch up on the Bobby Bone Show. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.680 I share the seven top segments from the show this week. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.200 On part one and part three, you can catch Mike 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.680 d and I catching up. Part one, he shared a 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.880 huge update in his braces that he's had for a while, 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.360 and I also shared a quite mental breakdown that I 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.239 had recently just with adult life. And part three we 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.239 answered all kinds of listener questions, So check both of 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.680 those out. But until you do, it's time to catch 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.199 up on the show. So let's do this. There's a 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.080 listener out there that seems to think Amy is the 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.120 devil or she's encouraging demonic activity because she wanted the 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.000 show to participate in writing our feelings today and releasing them. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.640 When the blood moon happens, so you can hear the 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.720 DM that she received and kind of just you know 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:08.800 the craziness of this whole thing. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.560 Number seven, Amy's the devil? Do you guys know that? 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:12.040 No? 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.080 Amy's the devil? Oh? No, I didn't notice it, but 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.360 a listener did, Yeah they did. Where did you get 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:18.000 this message? 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.800 He sent me a DM? Okay, go ahead on Instagram 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.360 and he said, you know, the burning of paper like 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.120 that during a blood moon is demonic? Is all crap, 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.440 and you're spreading demonic rituals to everyone. WTF? I thought 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.680 you were Christian. I guess I could be wrong. Sorry 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:34.200 if I'm wrong. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.520 So let's back out a second. What's you talking about? 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.800 Okay, So when you told me about the blood moon, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.960 I thought, oh, I think that there's some rituals the 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.640 word I know what he used, the word rituals. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:47.480 Why didn't Yeah? I think? 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.080 I said, I think there's some activities we could do 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.880 during the blood moon where we release things and it's 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:56.440 just a good night to do it, and we may 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.160 need to burn it or throw it in some water 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.840 or something like that. It's just a fun one thing 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.920 we could do together. I'm not doing anything demonic or satanic. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.120 I'm just simplify. I'm me simplfy what happened. I don't 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.760 know what the blood moon was. Amy's like, it's red, yeah, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.360 but she used that as a conduit to get us 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.280 all to hang out. It wasn't even about a blood moon. Yeah, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:15.600 she was like, I would like to hang out, like 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:16.799 I need some friends to come over to the house 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:17.120 or something. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:17.480 I don't know. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.000 No, I wanted to host us together at the house 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.040 doing something outside of work together that is a bonding 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.040 experience and we can all take something in our lives 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.120 that we need to surrender, release and get rid of. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.680 And at first it wasn't about the blood moon. She's 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.880 been pitching idea, yeah, and I was like, blood moon, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.160 it feels weird astrology. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.359 Weirdos probably think this actually means something. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.359 And then Amy's like, what we could do that's fun 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.440 is you write something down and then you throw it 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.600 in water, and it's like it's an activity. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.760 To let that thing release whatever. Who would you bo happening? 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.480 Yeah, it's an experiential thing, like you can in your 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.240 mind release something, but when you write it down on 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.440 paper and burn it and then drop it in water, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:02:59.480 like there's. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.160 Just a scary He brings up a great point. That's 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.680 why I'm not doing it. Yeah, no, no, yeah, I'll 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.360 live by the good book. And you know what, he. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.160 Probably also doesn't take his kids sug or treating. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.480 Or read Harry Potter or if you're offended by this, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.320 if you think this dumb little activity you could do 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:19.960 at a work office and that doesn't have to do 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.240 with a blood moon as a get to know you 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.680 game where you just like write something down you want 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.919 to get better out at work and throw it. Dude, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.160 you're out of your mind. I actually I'm banning. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.320 Your fosten into the show for two weeks. How do 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.400 you enforce it? I don't, but maybe the big man upstairs? 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:35.720 Will you cut street? 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.240 Sorry if I'm wrong? He goes, I guess, I guess 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.800 I could be wrong. I thought you were a Christian. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:40.720 Sorry if I'm wrong. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.400 What he's doing there is setting you up to go 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.080 sorry if I'm wrong, I thought you were Christian. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:44.680 Unfair. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.040 He's not saying sorry he's wrong. He's saying I'm going 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.000 to compare you to what I thought you were by 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:51.960 taking a shot at you. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.880 That's completely unfair. Wait till he hears about the other stuff. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:56.240 What other stuff? 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.000 We're still doing the reading the Dragon book? 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.920 Oh fourth Wing. 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.080 Listen, whoever you are, you're out of your mind. She 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.280 might be demonic, yes, but not because of this. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.960 Is she a Christian? Yes? Yes, yes, very much so. Yes, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.760 so you are a moron person. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.080 Just is it during the blood moon? I think you 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.320 can do it any other day of the week. But 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.920 he said blood moon makes you a demon. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.400 No, it's the ritual. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.320 I don't think you ever said a ritual though, I 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.720 don't know if. I also don't think you're the devil. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:27.200 Thank you. 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:27.600 Yeah. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:28.880 But we're not doing this though, right. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:29.200 No, we are. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:30.840 I'm using this as a reason not to do anything 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.800 because I don't want I don't want to go to hell, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:34.800 and I don't want us to be put on that 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:35.360 side of the chart. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.440 A good call, and it's like, okay, welcome to the 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.200 pearly gates. Next up, number two, Bobby coming up. Oh wow, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.000 this is good, this is good. You did this to 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.920 blahah mmm blood moon burn paper. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.479 Okay, So if you're canceling this activity, what are we 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.680 replacing it with nothing? Something more wholesome. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.520 Well, we'll do prais and worship ourselves at our own houses. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:55.920 Love it. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.480 That's not together. You're missing the whole point. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.600 Get over yourself, do your band from two weeks to 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.200 listen to the show. What's his name? First name? 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:06.960 Well, I have to pull up my DMS. I just 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.880 copied in paoplelock him. I didn't even I left it 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.880 in the I didn't even move it over to the 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.080 where he could see that. I read it because I 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.919 was like, oh, and also I don't want to judge 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.360 him like nothing, I don't. I don't have any ill 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.880 feelings towards him, Bobby, I don't need anybody to retaliate. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.800 She is in constant fear of retaliation always. Yeah, okay, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.320 it's the best bits of the week with Morgan number. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.440 Two, get more stop by the show. We haven't talked 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.719 to him in years. He's been outliving his life, traveling 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.400 the world. He's been spending a lot of time in 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.400 Hawaii and down in Africa, and he also has a 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.280 new album out. So he came in talked about all 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.479 the things. If you want to watch the interview, you 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.200 can check that out on our YouTube page at Bobby Bone. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:54.560 Show number six. There is Kip Moore. Everybody back. I'm 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.240 gonna see a buddy look lean and mean. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.320 Just got done serving for two straight months, so I 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.200 guess maybe that's it. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:03.360 Do you live in Hawaii? 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.719 No, I don't live there. I go there though, for 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.400 at least like a month every winter. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.359 So what do you do for a whole month? Like 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.159 talking me through a day in Hawaii? Because no idea. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.680 You know, normally I'm up before the sun comes up. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.320 I used to always ride my bicycle into downtown Lahina, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.560 but that's no longer with us at the moment because 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.040 the fires. Yeah, because the fires, and it's but there. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.440 It It kind of gave me a little hope this time. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.160 I mean, when I was there last year, it was 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:37.760 totally like an apocalyptic scene. It was pretty gnarly. This year, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.920 you're starting to see frames go up and hopefully that's 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.719 followed by you know, business and stuff. But it still 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.440 was my routine where I take a bike ride early 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.240 morning and I would check the whole South Shore coast 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.520 to see the thing was close by happen and breaking. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.760 And then if nothing's happening, I go to Honolua Bay. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.440 Usually I get I got a truck that I ran 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.640 out there for my buddy. And yeah, so it's like 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.560 a twenty minute drive, and then I'll surf for four 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.000 or five hours, and then I go to our roots, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.960 I get a little coffee and a little lunch, and 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.679 then I go back out and surf a little longer. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.440 And then if somebodies are doing something on the other 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.920 side of the north Shore where I might mountain bike 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.920 late in the evening, when we'll go up to Hollyockwall 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.000 and go all the way down and we'll do like 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.680 a camp fire up on Polypoly and call it a day. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.600 You do that every day for a month, it. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:29.840 Was a different language. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.600 I mean, yeah, I wouldn't say every single day, but 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.920 the majority of that, at least pieces of that I'm 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:37.880 doing every single day. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.360 And when you surf that long, it's got to be 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.520 something more than just a physical part of it. I 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.960 never served, So like, why do you love surfing? 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.120 You know, Bobby, it's think about it like this. I 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.600 love the snowboard. I love it like I really do. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.440 I love playing music. I love it like truly for 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.360 the purity of it. But either one of those scenarios, 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.800 but we'll say realistically, like if you said, oh man, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.440 where are you going to snowboard this year? And I said, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.840 you know Park City. He said, oh, man, you're gonna 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.760 have a blast, but just be careful because every winter 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.840 over there there's a big monster that comes out of 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.600 mountain and kills like two people on the way down. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.520 I would never snowboard again. That'd be it. You never 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.440 see me on the mountain. Surfing is the only thing 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.920 I feel like once we get past the age of like, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.760 you know, eleven, twelve thirteen, we have happiness and we 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.480 have joyful moments in life. I'm not saying that, but 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:39.560 to tap into that childlike spirit of nine, ten eleven 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.320 years old is impossible. It's the only thing that does it. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.000 So you know, when I catch a really good wave, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.800 its throttling, and I'm on top of like a one 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.600 foot reef where there's that also that danger element of 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.920 all men. You know, I could die. It's two feet overhead, 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.960 and you see people coming out bloody all the time. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.679 When you catch that and you're in it and you 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.240 feel that u fork thing that's happened in that moment, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.520 and it's you know, the waves are like carved in 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.079 these celestial workshops, and it's you know, you get out 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.200 the backside and the sunset and everything. You feel like 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.520 you're a little kid, and so I'll you kind of 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:15.480 risk that for anything. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:21.840 Are you able to separate yourself from the world and 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.840 the tasks or troubles of the world because you have 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:25.760 to focus on just that. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:26.640 Is that a part of it? 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.040 You just said it. It's the only thing I feel. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:34.600 I'm trapped a little bit in a maniacal state that 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.199 I stay in a lot. You know, I can't ever 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.679 seem to turn that thing off, and that's the only 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.440 time that it happens. That's the only thing that I'm 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.760 doing where everything just kind of goes away. And it's 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.959 not just like you know, music and stuff that I'm 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.560 here and you know all the time in my head, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:59.880 but it's I feel everything big and small, like really deeply. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:04.160 So you know, I can't even remember when we played 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.640 South Africa last year. I had a moment. I've been 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.120 doing some things that are underground over there, and i 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.600 had a moment where I met this kid and I've 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.840 never had a kid make that kind of impact on me, 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.920 and I carried it with me for I mean, it 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:26.360 was just constantly in there, you know, for months. It 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.240 felt like it's the only time that when i'm out 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.680 there and you're in that that everything goes away, the music, 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:38.040 all the things that come with the madness, whatever heartache 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.319 you're experiencing, whatever it is, it all goes away. And 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.120 it kind of has to because you have to be 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.560 dialed in. If it's really pumping, you cannot think about 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:46.319 anything else. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:47.120 Who was the kid? 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.559 It was? So I've been going to these shanty towns 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:58.839 in different spots of Victoria, Johannesburg or Cape Town, and 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.040 there's a woman that's been running a soup kitchen there 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.839 for years. I'd heard about her and I wanted to 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.520 meet her. And they said, well, you can't go into 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.560 this area because it's just way too dangerous. So I said, well, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.120 let's go. We're going today because it's my only day off. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:17.560 And they were you know, it was like this back 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.640 and forth, and the government got involved, was like, you 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.120 can't go, we can't go in there, YadA YadA. So 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.720 we ended up going. We weren't supposed to, but I 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.200 talked a couple of my security guards to take me 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.040 there and I met her. I wanted to meet her 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.079 in person because I wanted to get involved with her. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.760 So then that went to this other thing where she 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.440 was talking about these safe houses she was wanting to build. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.440 So that that's when I started meeting these individual kids. 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:47.680 So this kid was Michael, who lived in this I 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.640 mean this space that was I mean easily just as 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.520 big as a square right here, with about six other kids, 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.560 six of his brothers, one sister. Never met a more 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:03.800 gregarious kid in my life. Yeah, it so now we're 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.520 just trying to h We're not trying to it's actually 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.240 happening right now. So now we're working on the safe 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.240 houses are going up now in that area. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:17.600 Did that remind you that you're not always just a 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.160 product of your environment, Meaning this kid has, from what 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.000 we have, a pretty rough life. But if he had 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.199 such a positive attitude, like you're explaining how he is, 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.440 like people are drawn to him. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.320 He's unreal. He was unreal. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.760 Does that continue to give you new perspective when you 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.080 see somebody living a life like that but doesn't act 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.680 like you think someone should actively live a life like that. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.800 One thousand percent. There's so many elements to this. And 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.439 when we could sit here and we could talk for 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.480 two days on this, because I got so many opinions 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:51.720 on this, but you know, you can't help but look 0:12:51.760 --> 0:13:00.160 around and what is happening within that particular area to 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.360 the opportunity just is not there, so that light will 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.520 most likely start demming. But that's you know, the special 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.880 thing about kids before we kind of ruin them in 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.480 a sense, you know. And but his environment is nothing 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:21.520 but gangs affiliated around him. You feel the tension unlike 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:28.360 anything I've ever been in inside that, So you know 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.920 that there is I'm really big on this. I'm really 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.080 big on if you can be in a really dire 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:46.439 poverty situation money speaking, but if you have a solid 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:52.560 foundation of parental structure, you can get past those things. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.000 But without that and in that situation, yeah, it's a 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.360 it's a it's pretty dire. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:13:59.920 Where do you live? 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.000 What state I live? I mean I live here? 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:04.360 In your mail? Where's your mail come? 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.400 I live? I live in Nashville. Okay, yeah, yeah, I 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:10.120 still live in Nashville. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.800 So your bill's come here? Yeah, got it? 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.679 I still I still live in there. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.360 You're all over Hawaii, South Africa? 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.760 Yeah, yeah, like when it's time stuck cell phone bills? 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.480 Well yeah yeah, I mean that goes over there on Charlotte. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.360 But yeah, yeah. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.800 So what a what about time to actually be creative. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:27.720 When do you get that because you have the new 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.960 record now, But like when do you write the stuff? 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.040 I mean, it was it was every single day, Bobby. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.880 It was truly a relentless pursuit. Every every time I 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.720 got home last year, I was in this. I was 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.400 either writing with my friends or I would start most 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:47.280 of the songs. I'd get halfway done at this. You know, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:48.840 a little place I got on the East Coast, and 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.520 that's where I would go and I would write it 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.480 and then I would get guys out there, but I 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.880 would hold up tracking. I mean, it was non stop 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.760 recording every time I had days off. And I mean 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.600 I did. I don't know. I guess I did one 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.880 hundred shows last year. So it was every time I 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.480 was home. I mean I was. I was working on 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.640 it every time I was back in Nashville. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.640 You're working on But when were you writing it? 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.400 Yeah? I mean, like I wake up every single morning. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.560 It's the first thing I do. And that might end 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.600 up being, you know, on the road, and you know, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.680 I get off the bus and I have a little 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:28.360 whole little process that I do. But I'm jotting out 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.720 the lyrics that I've got what that I wake up 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.680 with and I'm singing the melodic parts the Countermeloy's into 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.480 my phone because I'm always got that there. So then 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.120 I see what I have if it's something that moves me. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.600 I might be three four hours into it before soundcheck, 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.680 or I might just jot down a little bit for 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.600 thirty minutes. I come back to it after soundcheck, then 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.240 it's another hour, and then I come back to it 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.320 after the gym and it's another hour. It all depends, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.280 it all varies, and then late night I've gotten to 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.600 where that's kind of when late night, super early morning 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.960 is when I feel the sharpest rake. 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.320 We play a few field the songs here. Yep, let's 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:06.960 do bad Spot? Can you give me some bad Spot? 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:07.960 This is Keip Moore in studio. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.280 You felt sad there, man, what's happening my dear? 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:19.880 No, This record was very much a an unpacking of 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:24.440 the closet. It was, you know, I think that even 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:25.960 with you guys, I mean it's you come in here 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.840 and you hustle every day, and or you're on the 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.280 road a whole lot, and you have this ability to 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.240 start compartmentalizing. You compartmentalize all these things in your life 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.200 and you shove them down and you bury them, and 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:37.680 a lot of times because you don't want to face 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.360 it and you don't want to look at yourself, like 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.240 you know, you don't want to look at yourself and 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.400 actually see what it is, you know, what you've done 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.200 or what somebody's done to you. And so this record 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.040 was a very cathartic process of that. And I didn't 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.280 know what was happening because I write, like I said, 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.360 I truly write every single morning, so I'm not always 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.360 in a record cycle. But I wrote High Hopes living Side, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.840 which is one of my favorites on Little Record, and 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.320 solitary tracks in like a week span, and then it's like, oh, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.760 I'm writing a record right now, I'm saying something. I've 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.879 got something to say. And I felt it, you know, 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.280 I felt these things that are buried, and I think 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.679 it's just an unpacking of that closet, looking in all 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:22.480 the junk and saying you're sorries some people you can't 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.359 reach out to and say you're sorry, to say in 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:30.040 your sories in your heart for those people, trying to 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.000 pray for forgiveness for that, and then trying to receive 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.800 the grace of that for yourself and letting go of 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.320 the things that people hurt you on. And I think 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:39.600 that's what this whole record is. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.439 There's one I'd like you to comment on that. I 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.760 like the Flowers in December. Could you play that ray? 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.359 Make that a little more personal for me? 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:51.639 You know, that was actually me thinking about my dad. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.120 It wasn't so much of a it is a love 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:56.760 song in a way in that sense, but it was 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.760 He'll creep into my mind at the strangest places, But 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.960 then thinking about him had me also thinking about it. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.240 That's like a chain event that happens. And then I'm 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:12.600 thinking about something a long time ago that went awry 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.199 and our lives went separate ways, and I happened to 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.640 be looking at a flower at that time that had wilted, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.359 And that's how the whole kind of concept came there. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.120 It's a lot of tracks, twenty three tracks, the songs 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.760 solitary tracks is out, But twenty three songs? Does that 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.320 mean you wrote a whole bunch more and you cut 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.200 it down to twenty three? 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.160 It was just going to be the thirteen from said 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:34.720 A and B and that's all it was going to 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.600 be because that SAD, A and B is a thing. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.200 It's a very specific thing. The sounds, the sonic nature 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.760 of it is all one thing. And then when I 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:47.680 finished it, the label said, well, you actually you got 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.439 four months until we have to turn this in if 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.200 it's going to come out February twenty eight, because that 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.119 was always the set date, and so I just kept writing. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:55.959 And then C and D is more of just an 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.560 eclectic mix of I was in a whole different space 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.000 because once I wrote that, I was done mentally with 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.159